The Brickmakers of Nepal: Delivering Relief Materials

Conscious Impact, Designing Matter, Energy and sustainability, expanding design practices, Low Density, Politics and economics, Project, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms

Architect’s role, Architecture&design, Collaborative work, Community, Compressed Stabilized Earth Blocks, Design-based research, Designer’s role, Designing Matter, Developing policies, Emergency architecture, Empowering society, Energetic Approach, Ethics, Global Awareness, Hand-made sundried soil blocks, Local materials, Natural materials, Nepal, Planetary urbanizations, Political & Economic Approach, Project, Raw materials, Social commitment, Social contributor, Social impact, Soil, Territorial Approach, Urban Paradigms

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On April 25, 2015, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, destroying hundreds of thousands of homes and killing more than 9,000 people. With little access to government support or outside aid, Nepalese families were left to rebuild on their own. Members of the international NGO Conscious Impact Nepal spent the next few weeks delivering relief materials to rural communities.